What is the Hawthorne effect. Why is it actually a poor term to describe how people react to expectations of an experimenter?
What will be an ideal response?
The Hawthorne effect refers to the phenomenon in which a research participant acts differently in order to meet the perceived demands of the situation. It is a poor term to describe how people react to the expectations of an experimenter because in the original Hawthorne studies, the workers' behaviors didn't change due to demand characteristics but to other extraneous influences.
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a. Greens b. Social Democrats c. Christian Democrats d. Free Democrats e. Conservatives